Improved refrigerator and water and wine cooler



UNITED STATES PATENT Crimene L. M. GOLDSBOROUGH, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVED REFRIGERATOR AND WATER AND WINE COOLER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs M. GoLDsBoR- OUGH, .ofthe city of Washington and District of Columbia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Refrigerators, which I dcnom inate a Combined Refrigerator and Water and Wine Cooler 5 and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in supplying in a compact as well as in an ornamental form a refrigerator containing within a series of coiledpipes, two or more, as may be desired, said coils being of snicient lsize and space to contain within them a bottle of wine, champagne, Src.; these coils or pipes, being arranged within the refrigerator, (that may be constructed in the usual manner,) and connected to and with the ordinary supply-pipe that is introduced into buildings, so that the ow of water, when this connection is made, shall be continuous through the coils above referred to.

After the number of coils have been determined, the pipe being a continuation of the coil is brought upward, and through the upper and outer side of the refrigerator, carried up above it, and bent downward, in order to supply drinking-water to the person or family desiring it. The flow of the water is controlled by a faucet in the pipe, placed, preferably, below the bend. The waste water produced by condensation or otherwise is carried off by means of waste-pipes in the refrigerator being connected with the waste-*pipes in the building, thereby leaving the refrigerator dry and clean. The main water-supply pipe of the building can be connected with the pipes of the refrigerator in the usual manner of connecting pipes, with a stop and supply cock to regulate the flow of water. The refrigerator can be made as ornamental as the taste of the owner may require, and placed in a convenient position in the dining-room, and used as a side-board, or for any purpose to which it is adapted. The pipe forming a part of the coil can be extended indefinitely, so that water can be forced into upper rooms as desired, or the refrigerator may be placed in any room of the house or building containing water-pipes,

to which it may be attached in the manner above described. The series of coils, being circular, may or may not be placed in contact. so that ice being placed around them, and filling the spaces between them,

ber where the coils are placed, will, at the same time, furnish a supply of icecold water, and

of architecture adapted to 'the position in the' room where it is placed. The interior is divided into compartments, as may be desired. B represents the ice-chamber; C and D, two other chambers, where ice, or any article of food, may be placed. E represents a shelf attached to the outer side of the refrigerator, Anear the top, made of marble or wood, and supported by ornamental brackets or otherwise. F is a hollow metallic cup, attached to the shelf E, and countersunk so as to bring its top part and that of the shelf coincident, and also attached to the upper extremity of the waste-pipe H, as the object of the arrangement is to convey oif conveniently all water that may be wasted purposely, or otherwise, from the outer end of the pipe G, and also, in the event of need, to enable the to be kept as open as may begnecessary, in order to guard against the contingency ofthe water freezing in any part of the pipe G, to allow the water to be kept flowing sufiicientl y for the purpose. The pipe G is all of blocktin, (or of any other material used for pipes,)

and formed in one piece of sufficient length to admit of the construction of coils, as shown inv Fig. l, through which pipe the water is supplied and forced by means, of'its attachment, to the water-supply pipe common to the house or building, as represented atc. The number of coils can be increased as desired, and they are made of size to receive and hold securely within them bottles of champagne,

or of any other kind of wine, or of liquors of any kind. The ice is placed in the icechamand within the chamstop-cock a ber' B,v and packed around and between the coils referred to in the spaces shown, by which means not only'the wines or liquors, but the water itself, is kept perfectly cool, and free from any impurities that may be contained in the ice, or such asy are ordinarily found in water when ice is placed in it. The wines and liquors are also rendered sufficiently cool to be placed upon the table and not weakened, or their quality injured, as is ordinarily the case when ice is brought in contact with them.

' Some ice may also ber placed in the lower part of C, if desired. H H are waste-pipes to conduct off and away from the pipe G and thev refrigerator all the waste water that may be allowed to flow from the former, and all that may arise from condensation, or the melting of ice in the latter. These waste-pipes are connected together, as shown in Fig. l, and then the one, H, is connected in anywell-known .manner to the waste-pipe common tothe house or building, as shown at d, Fig. 1. I, is the lid or top of the refrigerator, which is to be raised up when it is desired to place ice in its chamber, or in the chamber C, or wines or liquors in their coolers, or food of any sort, besides ice, in the chambery C. K is a shelf or partition, converging, as shown, to a common center, as at b, where is located the mouth or upper eXtremity of the waste-pipe. H'. Both of the waste pipes H and H' are placed at the back and outer side of the refrigerator. a and a! are stop-cocks near the opposite extremities ofthe pipe G, to regulate the flow and Vsupply of waterthe former to get the water for drinking, the latter to let the water into the pipe Gr from the supply-pipe common to the house or building. The. front of the refrigerator is closed by doors below the shelf or partition e K, and above said partition by panel-work,

in imitationy of drawers, or otherwise, asy may be preferred. l

What 1 claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The construction and arrangement, in one piece, of a series of coils of pipes, two or more, within a refrigerator, in such a manner that they may be connected with the' supplypipes through which'water is conveyed through and into a house or building, in the manner and for the purpose herein described.

2. The combination of the coiled water-supply pipes in a refrigerator, and the wastepipes of the same, with the supply and waste pipes ofthe house or building, in the manner and for the purpose herein described.

3'. In combination-with the above the shelf'V E, with the refrigerator A, andthe su-pply pipeG, and the waste-pipes H H', inthe manner andl for the purpose herein described.

L. M. GOLDSBOROUGH. Witnesses:

EDM. F. BROWN, B. F. Jmms. 

